Associate Professor Richard Pennell
Associate Professor
al-Tajir Lecturer in Middle East and Islamic History
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5952
- Email:
- rpennell@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 320
History, Arts West
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Biography
Richard Pennell did both his BA (in Arabic and Spanish) and his PhD (in Islamic History) at the University of Leeds in Britain. Before joining the History Department in Melbourne he taught for nine years, on and off, at the National University of Singapore. He taught for two years at the University of Nairobi, in Kenya, in the late 1980s and has also taught in Garyounis University in Benghazi, Libya and at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. In the second half of 2003 he was a visiting scholar hosted by Al-Akhawayn University, at Ifrane in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
Research
Richard has published extensively on the history of North Africa - particularly Morocco and Libya. While his main work has been on modern political history, he has also written about corsairing and piracy. His most recent books are Morocco since 1830: a History (London and New York: New York University Press, 2001) and Morocco: From Empire to Independence (Oxford: One World Publications, 2003. Translated into Spanish as Marruecos: del Imperio a la Independencia, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2006. He edited Bandits at Sea; a Pirate Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2001.He is currently working on two projects - the history of criminal trials abroad and resultant questions of national identity and the history of armed jihad.
Publications
Books
- Pennell, C.R. Marruecos: del Imperio a la Independencia. (Revised edition and translation of Morocco: From Empire to Independence, 2003). Madrid : Alianza Editorial, 2006
- Pennell, C.R. Morocco: From Empire to Independence. Oxford : One World Publications, 2003
- Pennell, C. R. - La Guerra del Rif: Abd-el-Krim el Jattabi y su Estado rifeño, Melilla: Universidad Nacional de Distancia and Consejería Cultural de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla, 2001
- Pennell, C. R. (ed) Bandits at Sea; a Pirate Reader, New York: New York University Press, 2001
- Pennell, C. R. - Morocco since 1830: a History, London and New York: C. Hurst and New York University Press, 2000
Journal articles
- Pennell, C.R. "The social history of British diplomats in North Africa and how it affected diplomatic policy." In The Diplomats' World. A Cultural History of Diplomacy 1815-1914, edited by Markus Mösslang and Torsten Riotte. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 347-79
- Pennell, C.R. (And McGregor, Katharine E;) "Beyond a Clash of Cultures: Schapelle Corby’s My Story and Comparable High Profile Criminal Trials." Australian Journal of Asian Law 10, no. 1 (2008): 26-49
- Pennell, C.R. "Law as a Cultural Symbol - the Gilford Murder Case and the Presentation of Saudi Justice." International Journal of Human Rights 10, no. 2 (2006), 121-142
- Pennell, C.R. "A Killing in Tripoli (1843): Principle, Contingency and Personal Diplomacy." Libyan Studies 36 (2005): 59-77
- Pennell, C.R. "Meeting the Sultan - personal encounters with the Commander of the Faithful." Journal of North African Studies 9, no. 1 (2004): 22-35
- Pennell, C.R. "Moroccan Mysteries (Work in Progress)." Wellcome History , no. 26 (2004): 6-7
- Pennell, C. R. - Law on a Wild Frontier: Moroccans in the Spanish courts in Melilla in the Nineteenth Century, Journal of North African Studies 7, 3 (2002): pp.67-78
- Pennell, C. R. - Lineage, Genealogy and Practical Politics: Thoughts on David Hart's Last Work, Journal of North African Studies 6, 2, (2001) : pp. 1-10
- Pennell, C. R. - Abd el-Krim se rinde, La Aventura de la Historia 31: pp. 48-52 (2001)
Teaching
- HIST10008 The World that made us - 1945 to today
- HIST30015 The Modern Middle East
- HIST20010 Great Empires of Islamic Civilisation
Supervision
- Andrekos Varnava (PhD), What shall we do with Cyprus: Cyprus in the British Imperial Imagination, Politics and Structure 1878-1915
- Natalie Dowling (PhD), British responses to the Libyan Revooution of 1969
- Karen Clawson (MA), Histories of Repression in Morocco
- Leander Kreltzsheim (MA), Women and Suicide Bombing
- Lauren Davis (Hons), The Propaganda of the War of the Camps in Lebanon
- Justine Rebien (Hons), The UNGA Resolution that Zionism is Racist
- Madeleine Legge (Hons), Accounts of detainess from Afghanistan in Guantanamo Bay